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Writing Studies, Minor

Requirements

Graduation Plan

Department

Faculty

Careers

Requirements

UVU’s English program is designed to give students skill, confidence, and versatility
in writing, speaking, and interpreting texts. The program provides opportunities for
students to consider and practice the applications of effective language use in diverse
situations: professional, pragmatic, social, political, and aesthetic. The English
program emphasizes knowledge and use of standard English in all written work, yet
incorporates an understanding that English is a desirably diverse and variable phenomenon.
The courses of study in English are designed to familiarize students with much of
the traditional canon of literature. They are also designed to provide students with
the critical and ethical skills necessary to interrogate this canon, to incorporate
and legitimize their own and others’ “different” voices, not just in the academy,
but in any of the many situations in which language influences human activity.

Graduation Plan

This graduation plan is a sample plan and is intended to be a guide. Your specific
plan may differ based on your Math and English placement and/or transfer credits applied.
You are encouraged to meet with an advisor and set up an individualized graduation
plan in
Wolverine Track.

Milestone courses (pre-requisites for a course in one of the subsequent semesters)
are marked in red and italicized.

Department

The Department of English and Literature at UVU provides an innovative and stimulating learning environment to help broaden cultural experiences, improve skills in written and verbal communication, deepen and refine abilities in critical thinking, and prepare students for graduate school and/or careers. By offering courses, programs, and activities in college-level writing, creative writing, literature, technical communication, and education, the department fosters an invigorating and diverse learning community that will enhance the way students envision themselves and their world.

Associate Professor

Careers

Careers:

Employers expect clear verbal and written communication, critical thinking and reading,
audience analysis, and persuasive presentations and research from their employees.
English and Literature students often work as teachers, analysts, critics, librarians,
creative writers, public relations specialists, lobbyists, copywriters, journalists,
editors, technical writers, and professors. Language used well is an important part
of websites, legislation, novels, document design, instruction manuals, screenplays,
advertising, news reporting, etc. Students in English at UVU are also well prepared
for graduate work in law, business, and education.